Marisol Picado

TL;DR: Pregnancy renders substantial changes in brain structure, primarily reductions in gray matter (GM) volume in regions subserving social cognition, providing the first evidence that pregnancy confers long-lasting changes in a woman's brain.

TL;DR: This study provides neuroanatomical evidence of alterations in the ventral striatum of ADHD children, and coincides with previous explicative models as well as with recent reports in behavioral and functional neuroimaging studies.

TL;DR: Structural and functional neuroimaging data from a unique pre-conception prospective cohort study involving first-time mothers investigated before and after their pregnancy as well as nulliparous control women scanned at similar time intervals provide the first indications that the transition to motherhood renders anatomical adaptations in the VStr that promote the strong responsiveness of a mother's reward circuit to cues of her infant.

TL;DR: The findings are consistent with the notion that the brain morphometric changes associated with pregnancy and adolescence reflect similar hormonally primed biological processes.

TL;DR: The findings show that the neuroanatomical profile of ADHD, especially the childhood form of the disorder, involves robust alterations in the cortical mantle, which are most prominent in brain regions subserving attentional processing.